INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Maestro's Internet site, the site dedicated to Milo Manara and His complete works. This site provides as much information as possible about Milo Manara' s opera omnia, including interviews, critical essays and pictures of Him. I am not only the creator of MAESTROMANARA.ORG, but mostly a great lover of superheroes and horror comics.
Giovanni Dondi
BIOGRAPHY OF MILO MANARA'S EARLY YEARS
His true name is Maurilio and he was born in Luson, district of Bolzano (I), on September 12th, 1945. As a student in the '60s, he illustrated the posters of a militant Maoist group. After he finished Architecture at Venice' "Accademia Di Belle Arti", he worked for the Spanish sculptor Berrocal in Malaga and near Verona. There, Manara discovered the comics series Barbarella and the art of comics author Hugo Pratt. Manara's first works are the following, for which he did the art part. 1969: GENIUS. 1970: two issues of TERROR (together with P. Boninsegna); JOLANKA #1 (a pin-up). 1972: an issue of the magazine ARCANA (a pin-up). 1973: an issue of the magazine SORRY (pin-up); IF #4 (the cover). 1974: RELAX #2 (the cover). Three episodes of CHRIS LEAN (inside CORRIER BOY); some episodes of IL FUMETTO DELLA REALTA' (inside IL CORRIERE DEI RAGAZZI). 1975: LA PAROLA ALLA GIURIA (inside IL CORRIERE DEI RAGAZZI). 1973-75: thirty-five issues of TELEROMPO. 1977: VOLERE E POTERE (inside CONTRO). 1977-79: LA STORIA DI FRANCIA; LA SCOPERTA DEL MONDO; LA CINA. He draws pin-ups for the newspaper VERONA INFEDELE from its beginning in 1988. The rest of the Maestro's career is entirely present in the pages of this site, divided by single works, series, pin-ups and interviews. Return to index to visit them.
Manara' s bill, hanged on Rimini' s town-hall (Italy) in 2004
Bill
of a football match in S. Ambrogio
di Valpolocella (Italy) , spring 2005
Some Manara' s exhibitions:
MAESTRI DEL FUMETTO
EUROPEO
Carpi (Italy) , May 15th-June 27th , 2004
Exhibition of European comics
authors among which the Maestro.
The poster is by Guido Crepax
Advertising leaflet for
the opening of a
contemporary art gallery
in Modena (Italy)
in
November 2004
46
Mantova Comics 2006
The
Maestro esteems immensely Hugo Pratt,
first of all his adventurous life, and they
were great friends. When Pratt died in
1995, (A SUIVRE) released a special issue
where he was remembered through many
stories, old and new, inspired by or dedicated
to his characters. There's also the Maestro
among the authors of this anthology, with
the previously published story "DEDICATED
TO CORTO MALTESE"
A pin-up displayed in REGGIO COMICS 2, a comic-shop in Reggio (Italy)
